The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 35

But, in spite of everything he could say, the Princess was quite determined to go back, though he at last persuaded her to stay eight days, which were so full of pleasure and amusement that they passed like a few hours.

Who acts: spite, Princess, eight days, pleasure · What happens: say, be, go back, persuade, stay, pass · To what, where: Princess, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite, Princess, eight days, pleasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 everything	case
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 spite	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determined	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 determined	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 determined	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 determined	advmod
15	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 determined	xcomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 persuaded	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 persuaded	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 persuaded	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 he	nmod
24	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 persuaded	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 persuaded	xcomp
28	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 days	nummod
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stay	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 full	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 full	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 full	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 full	advmod
34	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 days	acl:relcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 pleasure	case
36	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 full	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 amusement	cc
38	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pleasure	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 passed	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 passed	nsubj
41	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 full	advcl
42	like	like	ADP	_	45 hours	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 hours	det
44	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hours	amod
45	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 passed	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	spite of everything				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Princess			determined property	tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	persuade	past	spite	Princess			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
5	stay	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	eight days			of pleasure and amusement; full property	tree rules
7	pass	past	pleasure		hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	spite			everything			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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